Textures of F=2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit coupling
Abstract
We study the textures of F=2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) induced by a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field. On the basis of the analysis of the SOC energy and the numerical calculation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we demonstrate that the textures originate from the helical modulation of the order parameter (OP) due to the SOC. In particular, the cyclic OP consists of two-dimensional lattice textures, such as the hexagonal lattice and the (1)/(3) vortex lattice, commonly understandable as the two-dimensional network of the helical modulations.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- July 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.011607
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1104.4179
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvA..84a1607K
- Keywords:
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- 67.85.Fg;
- 03.75.Lm;
- 03.75.Mn;
- 67.85.Jk;
- Multicomponent condensates;
- spinor condensates;
- Tunneling Josephson effect Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials solitons vortices and topological excitations;
- Other Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena;
- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 5 figures